The Benefits of Team Sports to Children While physical activity of any kind is good for children, team sports address much more than just exercise. They go much beyond the obvious goal scoring, centuries, home runs and winning. They benefit children on different levels viz. psychological, sociological and physical. Children are by nature very ‘me’ eccentric. Team sports do not foster this attitude; as theme’ is always part of a greater...

Cursive Writing Cursive writing with its smooth flowing curves and its fancy loops is fast disappearing and in years to come, it will be a relic. Those in favor of Cursive writing believe it’s a basic skill and like all basic skills must be learned and mastered. Those in favor of letting go of cursive argue that this is the age of the computers and we must move with the times....

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings Maya Angelou’s autobiography ‘I know why the caged bird sings’, won her a lot of acclaim. Angelou was hailed as a new kind of memoirist as she was the first African American woman who was able to publicly discuss her personal life. Angelou’s autobiography set a precedent for the genre of autobiographies as a whole. Before “I know why the caged bird sings” black...

Should Religion Be Taught in School? Religion is an important part of our culture and also forms the fabric of our existence, hence, it should be an important part of our education as well. It is impossible to separate our personality and our spirituality. Our spirituality is what makes us who we are and governs our choices as well. Our faith as a nation shapes our laws and is the seed...

My Mother My earliest memory of my mother is when my brother died. She was heartbroken. I overheard people say that she would succumb to her grief. However, she had us, me and my sister, and she had to move on. Despite the lump in her throat and the stone on her chest she went on cooking, cleaning and working. It took her a really long time to get her smile...

Walt Disney “Walt Disney,” the name that is synonymous with animation pioneered the art of creating animated film cartoons and revolutionized it. He was a man with great vision and an innovative genius. Walt Disney was born on 5′ December, 1901 and he had 5 older siblings. When he was four, his family moved from Illinois to Marceline. He lived with his family on a farm and it is here that...

Smoking in Public Places The smell of smoke makes me feel claustrophobic. My weak lungs have to fight to breathe. I have to deal with it outside the theatre, the mall, on the railway platform, in the restroom and almost every public place I visit. I am in support of the banning of smoking in public places. Second hand smoke is very harmful to non-smokers. Every time I inhale second hand...

Dieting Today, with television broadcasting stars sporting the stereotype wafer-thin body type, we have a generation of people wanting to be fashionably thin. With more and more people eating fast food, (which contains high amounts of fat and salt) as it is an easy, less time-consuming option, we have a whole lot of overweight people in danger of having serious medical conditions. People choose a particular diet either in the hope...